Morphosyntactic Studies of Spanish in Contact with Mexican Indigenous Languages

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ID23312018
AuthorsNadiezdha Torres Sánchez (0000-0002-7774-7829, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, corresponding author), Alonso Guerrero-Galván (0000-0001-7093-1968, Tecnológico Nacional de México, corresponding author)
Year2026
Volume11
Issue8
Pages155
Publication date2026-07-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2226-471X • E-ISSN: 2226-471X
PublisherMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/languages11080155
OpenAlexW7171449683
LanguageEN
References cited11

In Mexico, diverse sociolinguistic realities have given rise to various situations of language contact, primarily between Spanish and indigenous languages. Intense linguistic contact produces changes in the structure of both languages. This research reviews several studies that have focused on describing variation and processes of change at the morphosyntactic level due to linguistic contact in different varieties of Spanish in contact with indigenous languages. On the one hand, the stability of some of these change processes is noted, and on the other, the function served by both the structures of indigenous languages and the diverse contact situations in which they are immersed is evidenced, which demonstrates that despite sharing contact features, the process and the results are not the same across different Mexican bilingual communities.

Function (biology) · Indigenous · Language change · Language contact · Linguistic change · Variation (astronomy) · Latin American history and culture · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies

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